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tomnackid
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Well isn't it? Nobody is "touring" space. People are going for the experience of space flight itself. Branson et al. are like the barnstormers of the early 20s. They gave ordinary people a taste of flight and kept the idea of air travel alive during a time when it was not yet practical or economical. What really led to modern air travel was air mail contracts. What will be analogous for space travel? Ultra-fast package delivery via sub orbital rockets? (When it absolutely, positively has to be there in and hour!) Satellite maintenance companies? All those comsats launched in the 90s are going to start failing in the coming years. What else?